Contributor
Hartshorne, Charles, 1897-2000.
Imprint:[Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1953]
Description535 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:INTRODUCTION: THE STANDPOINT OF PANENTHEISM: A. The law of polarity -- B. A classification of theistic doctrines -- PART ONE. CLASSICAL VIEWS: I. Ancient or quasi-panentheism: an enunciation of themes: Ikhnaton, Hindu scriptures, Lao-Tse, Judeo-Christian scriptures, Plato -- II. Aristotelian theism: Aristotle -- III. Classical theism: Philo, Augustine, Anselm, Al-Ghazzali, Maimonides, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Channing, von Hügel -- IV. Classical pantheism: Asvaghosha, Sankara, Rama-Nuja, Spinoza, Royce, Jeffers -- V. Emanationism: Plotinus -- VI. Temporalistic theism: Socinus, Lequier -- PART TWO. MODERN VIEWS: VII. Modern panentheism: Schelling, Fechner, Peirce, Pfleiderer, Varisco, Whitehead, Berdyaev, Iqbal, Schweitzer, Buber, Radhakrishnan, Weiss, Watts -- VIII. Limited panentheism: James, Ehrenfels, Brightman -- IX. Extreme temporalistic theism: Alexander, Berman, Ames, Cattell -- X. Extreme temporalistic theism: Wieman -- PART THREE. SKEPTICAL OR ATHEISTIC VIEWS ANCIENT AND MODERN: XI. Religio-Pragmatic skepticism: Buddhism -- XII. Logico-metaphysical skepticism: Carneades and Hume, Schopenhauer, Feuerbach -- XIII. Motive-torque or psychological skepticism: Nietzsche, Freud -- XIV. A skepticism based on analysis of meaning: Dennes -- EPILOGUE: The logic of panentheism.
Note:The authors ask five questions of the various philosophers' writings: Is God eternal? Is he temporal? Is he conscious? Does he know the world? Does he include the world? Answers in the affirmative are coded E (Eternal), T (temporal), C (conscious, self-aware), K (knowing the world, omniscient), and W (world-inclusive, having all things as constituents). They code the various excerpts listed in the table of contents according to these answers. The introduction includes a lengthy explanation and examination of the questions.
